What are the permissions on /home/p2homer/cvsroot/CVSROOT itself? And /home/p2homer/cvsroot, for that matter? Also, would you mind sending a transcript of a failed session using the global trace (-ttt) option (e.g. `cvs -ttt co homer')?
Incidentally, why is your CVSROOT/history file executable? Regards, Derek Darlene D Choontanom wrote: > > > -Darlene D Choontanom wrote: > -> We just recently upgraded to CVS 1.12.9, and noticed that the group > -> membership on our various CVS repositories are not working like they > -> used to. In previous versions, a user just had to be a member of the > -> Unix group in order to be able to modify a repository. Now, however, > -> they need to change their effective gid via the "newgrp" command in > -> order to access it. > - > - > -I wouldn't have expected this to happen and have seen no evidence of it > -here. Perhaps 1.12.x changed some file or directory access in such a > -way as to interact with your UNIX file system in a new way? If you > -could give us more specific information about how to reproduce this and > -perhaps exactly which operations are failing? Specific error messages > -would be helpful, as would specific OS and client versions. > > Sorry about that; the actual version of CVS we're using is 1.12.12, > not *.10 (or *.9 ...); the CVS repository is hosted on Sun > fileservers; the clients are either running Solaris 8 or 9 or some > variant of Windows running winCVS. A transcript from a Solaris > session is below. > > --- begin--- > mopsella% cvs -d /home/p2homer/cvsroot checkout homer > cvs [checkout aborted]: /home/p2homer/cvsroot/CVSROOT: Permission denied > mopsella% ls -l /home/p2homer/cvsroot/CVSROOT > total 12458 > drwxrws--- 2 p2homer p2 512 Aug 14 2002 Emptydir/ > -r--r--r-- 1 p2homer p2 42 Jul 30 2004 avail > -r--r--r-- 1 p2homer p2 663 Feb 18 2004 avail,v > -r--r--r-- 1 p2homer p2 499 Jul 30 2004 checkoutlist > -r--rw---- 1 p2homer p2 817 Feb 12 2004 checkoutlist,v > -r--r--r-- 1 p2homer p2 805 Jul 30 2004 commitinfo > -r--rw---- 1 p2homer p2 1123 Feb 12 2004 commitinfo,v > -r--r--r-- 1 p2homer p2 527 Jul 30 2004 config > -r--rw---- 1 p2homer p2 728 Aug 14 2002 config,v > -r--r--r-- 1 p2homer p2 81 Jul 30 2004 cvsignore > -r--r--r-- 1 p2homer p2 400 Apr 3 2003 cvsignore,v > -r--r--r-- 1 p2homer p2 1119 Jul 30 2004 cvswrappers > -r--rw---- 1 p2homer p2 1578 Aug 16 2002 cvswrappers,v > -r--r--r-- 1 p2homer p2 1025 Jul 30 2004 editinfo > -r--rw---- 1 p2homer p2 1226 Aug 14 2002 editinfo,v > -rwxrw---- 1 p2homer p2 6319987 Aug 30 07:15 history* > -r--r--r-- 1 p2homer p2 1141 Jul 30 2004 loginfo > -r--rw---- 1 p2homer p2 1342 Aug 14 2002 loginfo,v > -r--r--r-- 1 p2homer p2 1217 Jul 30 2004 modules > -r--rw---- 1 p2homer p2 2533 Apr 3 2003 modules,v > -r--r--r-- 1 p2homer p2 564 Jul 30 2004 notify > -r--rw---- 1 p2homer p2 765 Aug 14 2002 notify,v > -r--r--r-- 1 p2homer p2 649 Jul 30 2004 rcsinfo > -r--rw---- 1 p2homer p2 850 Aug 14 2002 rcsinfo,v > -r--r--r-- 1 p2homer p2 879 Jul 30 2004 taginfo > -r--rw---- 1 p2homer p2 1080 Aug 14 2002 taginfo,v > -rw-rw---- 1 p2homer p2 641 Aug 30 07:23 val-tags > -rwxr--r-- 1 p2homer p2 3094 Jul 19 2004 val-tags.db* > -r--r--r-- 1 p2homer p2 1026 Jul 30 2004 verifymsg > -r--rw---- 1 p2homer p2 1227 Aug 14 2002 verifymsg,v > mopsella% groups > 31751 p4_lsf apl5 p2 p4 p2_lsf > mopsella% cvs -v > > Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.12 (client/server) > > Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > Senior active maintainers include Larry Jones, Derek R. Price, > and Mark D. Baushke. Please see the AUTHORS and README files from the > CVS > distribution kit for a complete list of contributors and copyrights. > > CVS may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License, > a copy of which can be found with the CVS distribution kit. > > Specify the --help option for further information about CVS > > --- end > > > Thanks-- > Darlene > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Raytheon Company > 310.334.5478 > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Info-cvs mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs > > -- Derek R. Price CVS Solutions Architect Ximbiot <http://ximbiot.com> v: +1 717.579.6168 f: +1 717.234.3125 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
